Frank Tartaglione prefers a statement of purpose over a biographical statement. His work pursues what he describes as the real view, as experienced through movement, engaging both the conscious and unconscious process of seeing. He understands what the eye actually perceives to be a brilliant array of sweeping abstracted images. Verticals and horizontals are bent, fragmented and distorted in our peripheral vision into diagonal thrusts. These abstracted views occupy much of our visual process. Tartaglione’s paintings attempt to freeze these visual sweeps, and to document our unconscious visual journey. His work is executed in an abstract expressionist vocabulary governed by drawing. His color is nonobjective, though infused with the light and shadow of daylight. The push and pull between his painterly gesture and his drawn line suggests the texture and form of the real view. To observe, register and execute this array of visual phenomena is his primary interest as a painter.